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...which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks at Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance...
...dining hall task force, which was endorsed by the CHL last spring, will be headed by Tara Gadgil ’07, chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC), and newly-appointed Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson. The group will be composed of HUDS staff, administrators, and students from different areas of campus and will be charged with evaluating different potential options to extend the hours of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) service for undergraduates...
...schedule, the Crimson co-ed sailing team could have been forgiven for showing some signs of fatigue, despite the importance of the upcoming Atlantic Coast Championships. Instead, however, the team ended its series of marathon weekends with a bang, surging to a second-place finish in the Nelson Regatta at Connecticut College and missing first by only ten points—a performance that could prove to be important for the upcoming women’s ACC’s. The weekend was the sixth straight in which Harvard has participated in three or more events, a workload...
...Carved out of a single block of Italian marble, she's so white she almost glows. But not everyone has quite got used to the pregnant, armless sculpture that has taken up residence in one of London's most trafficked public spaces, near monuments to the likes of Lord Nelson and King George IV. Sketching the statue for a class, Nisharee Pongpaew, 20, an art student from Brighton, registers her disapproval. "Around her are all these important people," says Pongpaew. "She's not a hero...
DIED. TOWNES VAN ZANDT, 52, country singer whose dark recordings about life's losers included Pancho and Lefty (recorded by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard); of a heart attack; in Smyrna, Tennessee. Born to wealth, Van Zandt spent part of his teens institutionalized for manic depression. At one point he became so poor he subsisted on dog food. But his songs influenced generations of country and rock singers, from Neil Young to the Cowboy Junkies...